Jane Rogoyska

Surviving Katyn

Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth

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WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 'A gripping reconstruction… utterly compelling reading.' Adam Zamoyski 'This is a grim story, thoroughly researched and brilliantly told.' Geoffrey Alderman, Times Higher Education The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses. Committed in utmost secrecy in April?May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi atrocity, their story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. Survivin… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-86154-303-8
EAN: 9780861543038
Produktnummer: 37535799
Verlag: Oneworld Publications
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 370 S.
Masse: H19.4 cm x B13.4 cm x D3.5 cm 346 g
Gewicht: 346

Über den Autor

Jane Rogoyska is the acclaimed author of Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa. She has a particular interest in the turbulent period from the 1930s to the Cold War in Europe. Her research into the Katyn Massacre led to her first novel, Kozlowski (long-listed for the Desmond Elliott Prize) and Still Here: A Polish Odyssey which she wrote and presented for BBC Radio 4.